CapturedNature

1 hour ago, Ginx snewx said:

Pics of your green lawn please 

You know everything is qualified right?  A lush green lawn is a few blades turning green, flower blooming are the shoots coming up from the ground and full leaf out is the tiniest tip of one emerging from it's bud.

2 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

Pics or not true.

You know he's going to take a picture of the one astrochem lawn that has some green blades among the brown ones.

2 hours ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Bugs here yes.  No green for miles and miles and miles 

Yeah, there's some bugs in different pockets like I had a stray bee land on my windshield the other day when it was 70 and I had mosquitoes around my sugarhouse and I've seen sugar moths in my sap but all of that is normal.  Maybe it's 2 weeks early but nothing like we're seeing stuff that only shows up in May.

5 hours ago, UnitedWx said:

Yes exactly, hence the "nearly"  And I don't mean to say it's nothing but with doctors I work for that I have spoken with the 3 of them believe there is an excessive amount of hype.

You should post in the other thread. 

4 minutes ago, wxmanmitch said:

I find the Midwest vibe you speak of a little surprising, but I guess it makes sense if it's flat and suitable for farming. Although the growing season at that latitude must be really short. 

N ME is fantastic for synoptic snowstorms and a nice long winter season owing to it's high latitude, but must not that good for orographic type snows like I get here without mountains. They can get snow and mix events there while we're torching into the 60s and 70s. 

The Champlain Valley here in VT is the only other place in New England that might have that Midwest vibe, but even there you still have the backdrop of the Green Mountains in the distance to the east.  

I can confirm the midwest vibe up there.  My wife is from Peoria, IL and she loves visiting up there.  She says she almost feels claustrophobic with all the trees and not being able to see the horizon but feels like she can breath in the midwest and places like northern Maine with it's wide open spaces in places.

I'm surprised I haven't seen more brush fire/drought posts from the usual suspect(s):

https://www.masslive.com/news/2020/03/firefighters-respond-to-brush-fires-in-monson-palmer-and-deerfield-warn-of-potential-for-busy-fire-season.html

3 hours ago, UnitedWx said:

Yes and in my opinion, this is being hyped to death. No one seems to care, or want to hear/educate themselves that the flu mortality is nearly the same. 

There's a separate thread for this but when you say "nearly the same" you do realize it's higher for Covid-19, correct?

https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---3-march-2020

"Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected."

It's also an unknown.  As more data is gathered we know more but it's the uncertainty that's driving things.

54 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Was March 2012 snowless in SNE? 

No, I know I had 7" that month. 

50 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

AMOUT

 

LOL....it's March.  It's Spring.  Why is that a surprise?  Half of my top 10 coldest March's have practically been in the past 10 years and we're supposed to be surprised by an AN March?

The biggest problem I had at the sugarhouse today was mosquitoes.  For all this talk of dry weather, that wasn't the case around here.

42 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

ughhh does anyone know how to format in Excel to return average time? I'm pretty sure I have it setup properly but (I'm using 24-hr time) when I input times such as (0:11, 0:16, 0:07) it is throwing off what the average should be. A fix seems to be just convert into 12-HR time but I know there is a way to do it but can't figure it out. 

Is the cell that you're computing the average, is that formatted to time as well?

32 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Looks like gas prices could be headed towards 2$ a gallon if not lower. Fill em up!

Already there in Western Mass.  I filled up for $1.99 last week.

47 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Ides done?

Not until March 16th.  Regardless of the weather, March 15th will still occur.

2 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Once you give up on winter, stop caring about snow after you realize it’s over( in my case end of Jan) it really makes life much more pleasurable. No worries or stress or emotional attachment to tracking snow . You’re just naked and free. Not a care in the weather world until summer heat comes 

44 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

No. 99% of us here(you included) are emotionally attached to the weather. It’s not worth a discussion 

These seem opposed to one another.  In statement you're saying you're free because you're not emotionally attached and in another you are.  Which is it?  I would prefer certain weather but if it doesn't happen, I'm OK with that.

30 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Once you give up on winter, stop caring about snow after you realize it’s over( in my case end of Jan) it really makes life much more pleasurable. No worries or stress or emotional attachment to tracking snow . You’re just naked and free. Not a care in the weather world until summer heat comes 

Some of us feel that way all the time.  Welcome to the club.  Try and practice that from now on and just accept the weather that you get.

52 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

I would be stocking up on sugar.  That will be worth a ton. People are addicted to it

I have a couple thousand pounds of maple sugar and syrup...just not saying where. 

12 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Someone posted that last week about forsythia blooming by this weekend 

Not around here.  Not even close.  I wouldn't take a forsythia blooming in an urban center along the coast as a sign that they are ready to bloom here.  I looked at mine the other day and there's no sign of anything.

31 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Yeah it blows....way too early. I’ll be back to driving into work in the dark. Make it the first Sunday in April.

I agree but we're trying to save the planet and all...

Having said that, I'd rather just be on standard time.  I know most people prefer the savings time.  I like having the light in the morning and don't really need it in the evening.  Even on standard time there's plenty of light well in the evening in the summer when it counts.  It makes it harder only doing it 4-5 months out of the year.  But someone thought we could save a few dollars if we shortened it up...argh.

24 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

I always wash my hands before using the bathroom 

I've never understood why more people don't do that.  If your hands are dirty, why would you want to put them on your privates and then wash your hands.  Your privates now have the germs that you don't want.  Why wouldn't you want to wash your hands before you go to the bathroom?

9 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

I think he said 89-90

Yeah, that's a better analog though we're only in early March and I'm not one for counting my chickens before they hatch.

55 minutes ago, SJonesWX said:

nice work with the green crayon

Sharpiegate II

39 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Or #3.
In our area 2010 was milder, by 0.98° at the Farmington co-op.  That co-op reached 83 in 2012 and only 66 in 2010, but also dropped to-2 in '12 and only to 11 two years earlier.  2010 had no afternoons cooler than 36 while 2012 had 5 days with max 32 or lower. I had 14.6" snow in 2012, only 0.6" in 2010.  That's my lowest for any of the snowy months (DJFM) in my 47 Maine winters.  Except for the impact on the loggers, I'd take another sunny and warm 2012 long before repeating cloudy and wet 2010.

Yeah, It's either #3 or 4 for me.  I know some are just going off of snow but temperatures haven't been that warm and we can't ignore that period in early December.  It was a solid few weeks.  Special mention certainly goes the fact that we had little snow between 12/21 and 2/29 but if I recalled correctly, 1989 had about the same but we can't cherry pick which periods count and which ones do not.  For those that do, I wonder if they are including snow after the said they were "out" in their seasonal records?

2 hours ago, weatherwiz said:

I don't get all this talk of  cold and snow when we're looking at one of the warmest Morch's in recent times. 

I don't see anyone talking about cold but there could be snow chances.  It's early March.  Even 2012 and other crappy March's had snow.

40 minutes ago, moneypitmike said:

Looks like BOX needs a location for their Tolland Skywarn training.  Is The Bue available?

 

I sent an offer for our parish hall...I'd love a short drive lol.

23 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

CT stopped sand years ago. I forgot how much I hated it. It’s on every back road, every company ,every college I went to. Sand as far as eye can see

Stafford still uses it...I think Union too.  With this winter there hasn't been much need for it but I know this past spring they still sweep the sand off the side of the road.

25 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Only pack I saw was Dixmont . Would love to but heading to Goodfire Brewing now. Staying in Portland tonight 

You can tell them you know where to get maple syrup if they are looking to make some maple brews...lol

9 minutes ago, CTValleySnowMan said:

I'm not a historian but in my lifetime definitely.  

Yeah, I had never seen anything like that before or after.  Even the amount of snow in Stafford/Union was something I had never seen before or since.  30"+ snowfalls are pretty rare.  That whole day was pretty special.